End the Trade in Child Rape and Torture

Join the fight against the trade in child rape and torture, aka child pornography.

Data4Justice is a crowd-sourced database of child pornography arrests in America. Currently, there is no public database documenting the scope of America's fastest growing crime.

Inspired by Brian Burghart, creator of the website Fatal Encounters, Data4Justice attempts to create a public database of arrests of people trading in child rape and torture, aka child pornography. We need your help. Please help us map the crisis.

Data4Justice's database, with your help, will enable public officials and private citizens to gain and share information needed to fight this crime and better protect America’s children.

Europol's Strategic Assessment of the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Online 6 October 2013. pg 11-12

Q: Does America really produce an estimated half of the world’s child porn?

A: There is no good data on child porn rates of production, volume, trading, profits and the number of children being abused. That is the goal of this project.

It is a reasonable calculation that America is producing an estimated half of the world’s child rape and torture videos and images if half of the internet servers distributing child porn are located in America.

According to one of the Department of Justice's Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) trainers, Brad Russ, an estimated 50,000 Americans, at any given time, are trading child sex abuse images/videos.

But because the anti-trafficking community has failed to link child sex trafficking with child porn production, which is why children are trafficked for sex, no one really has any idea how many children are being trafficked for sex in America.

If child porn data was factored as a variable into child sex trafficking data, the current estimated numbers of trafficked children would implode.

We also do not know how much profit the child porn industry produces. Some experts say the global child porn industry may be yielding $20 billion to $50 billion per year. Germany estimates 250,000 Germans spent $27 billion on child sex abuse images/videos in 2013. The Department of Justice reports a pedophile can earn up to $1,000 per night molesting a child via a web camera. One investigator says the child porn industry is “very tempting” with lots of “sales to be made.” A picture can sell for $25, a video for $300. Monthly child porn subscriptions average $100 per month. With this kind of easy profit, child porn is rapidly overtaking drugs as organized crime’s preferred money-maker.

Another aspect of the criminal child porn industry in America, that almost everyone is silent about, is the large number of American government officials (including judges, military officers and police) often with substantial authority, arrested as both consumers and producers in the illegal child porn industry. This makes key government officials, and the institutions they serve, susceptible to pressure to engage in illegal and corrupt behavior undermining good governance, civil society and American democracy.

The American public needs to know the statistics of America's child porn crisis in order to keep our children safe and halt the crime that is threatening all of our security. The US Government is not (and should be) collecting demographic data on arrests for those trading in child rape and torture, aka child pornography.